St Swithun Upon Kingsgate Churchyard in Winchester, Hampshire

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Winchester, City of Winchester, Hampshire SO23 9JP England

Coordinates: 51.05916, -1.31439
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St Swithun upon Kingsgate is a Church of England church in Winchester, Hampshire, England, built in the Middle Ages in the Early English style. Located above the medieval Kingsgate, one of the principal entrances to the city, the church is unusual in forming a part of the fabric of the
old city walls.

The duty of maintaining the church falls upon the parish of St Lawrence with St Swithun-upon-Kingsgate.

According to legend, St Swithun has a special association with the English weather, a legend which dates from July 971 when the bones of the saint were moved from outside the old Saxon cathedral and brought inside the building,
apparently causing a great thunderstorm.

"On St Swithun's Day, if then dost rain,
For forty days it will remain:
St Swithun's Day, if then be fair,
For forty days 'twill rain nae mair."

St Swithun's Day is celebrated on July 15.